Libraries support students, teachers

Re "Libraries provide the essential tools for progress," April 8 Community View: As a retired school librarian with 30 years' experience, serving students from kindergarten through high school in the Mount Vernon School District, I have experienced and fought against cutbacks of elementary school librarians. The issue of mandating elementary school librarians has come to the attention of the state, but has been ignored for years. In most schools, art, music and elementary librarians serve as teacher prep coverage, and all of them do a great job enriching students. But when schools need to cut one of the specials for budget constraints, it is a huge mistake to eliminate the librarian, the one who supports the entire curriculum. The librarian supplies the needs of teachers and students by providing the materials and skills needed to use them.

As a matter of civil rights, are not the rights of students in schools without a librarian deprived of "the opportunity to grow intellectually and make informed decisions about their lives?" All students in every district need to be served equally.

Carmella Cammarota

Mount Vernon

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Libraries support students, teachers

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